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[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 26: Have to go dam’ slow on that money or we’ll be up against it.
at up against, phr.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 126: Have to get out of here [...] Man goes clean off his crumpet, arsing about a bally lonely hole like this all day with nothing to do.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 14: The bagman alone talked, guzzling rapidly in order to gabble while guzzling.
at bagman, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 126: Have to get out of here [...] Man goes clean off his crumpet, arsing about a bally lonely hole like this all day with nothing to do.
at bally, adv.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 93: Those infernal bandogs of the law.
at bandog, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 74: I was so blanky tired I hardly heard the blanky trains go over it.
at blanky, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 195: ‘What do you mean by dippy?’ ‘What I mean, do her block in suddenly and flop all over a man.’.
at do one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 73: Blow me if I didn’t go to sleep.
at blow me!, excl.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 22: Sixty navvies on the Springback deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to.
at dole-bludger, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 79: He was so puffing and fuming that he had to pull up for breath, and take his hat off to ease the smoking hot pressure of a brainstorm.
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 22: These church bugs belong to the tennis club.
at bug, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 232: With a cop on my taiI was a bit upset when I got to Miss Marley’s, and I bunged the truth straight to her.
at bung, v.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 190: When things are absolutely bunged up, something unexpected turns up to put them right.
at bunged up, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 150: Not a bad old stick, but no notion of doing things properly [...] Food dumped out on a bare kitchen-table. Real bushwhacker style.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 114: I’d have it out with him, I would, the dirty Come-to-Jesus skinflint.
at come-to-Jesus, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 87: He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martydoms that squandered him to gloom.
at cork up, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 210: You’re dotty, balmy, absolutely off your crumpet.
at off one’s crumpet (adj.) under crumpet, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 219: Damme, she’s dead.
at damme!, excl.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 99: It was a dooce of a problem to settle.
at deuce, the, phr.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 81: What about that cigarette tobacco? I’m absolutely dotty for a smoke.
at dotty, adj.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 183: Too dangerous. Mender’s dropped to it [...] They’ll be on the watch now.
at drop to (v.) under drop, v.4
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 195: ‘How d’you mean flop-out?’ ‘Well, I mean, she suddenly lobbed over on me, giggling and gasping and hanging on to me.’.
at flop out (v.) under flop, v.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 205: In a funking rage, Bradley snapped his traps together and picked up the canvas.
at funk, n.2
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 68: By ginger, I’ve had a hell of a time.
at by ginger! (excl.) under ginger, n.3
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 157: Well, it’s settled his hash too.
at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 85: I made up my mind then and there I’d hook it out of town that very night.
at hook, v.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 105: He’d draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors.
at horrors, the, n.
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 25: Damme, Edmund’s at it again.
at at it under it, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 26: Fair cow, that john.
at john, n.1
[Aus] N. Lindsay Age Of Consent 211: This is pretty tough, letting a man suddenly in for a knock out like this.
at knock, n.1
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